A seven-year-old boy named Amerigo who in 1946 leaves his impoverished family in Naples and gets on a train to go live with a wealthier family in the north as part of a postwar initiative to rescue children from poverty.

A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they mo

Near future. The old penitentiaries are a memory. Inmates now serve their sentence in a state of deep sleep. Until one day David Damiani, a prison psychologist, finds himself confronted with a prisoner over whom he has lost all control.